Universal design in architecture education

Subject Areas : City architect

Alireza Mashbaki Esfahani ^{1 *} , Sediqe Moin Mehr ²

1 - Assistant professor of architecture, faculty member of Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant professor of architecture and faculty member, Faculty of Art, Architecture and Urban Planning Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-08-20 Accepted : 2022-08-20 Published : 2022-07-23

Keywords: Design, architecture, Universality, education,

Abstract :

The social responsibility of the architect is considered an important tool to increase the level of access to awareness levels in the society. Higher education institutions are ideal places for increasing the awareness of professionals and other members of society. Therefore, there is a need to develop teaching methods in architecture schools. This article presents a model for education (universal design) in architecture schools. Universal design education should help to effectively form the values of future architects and help to remove environmental barriers; With this work, environments are provided that are comprehensively designed from the beginning of the design process with a comprehensive and stable understanding of the designer. Its main purpose is to fulfill the need for knowledgeable and responsible architects and knowledgeable people in the society. The designer (at the scale of components and furniture), the architect (at the scale of building construction) and the city designer (at the urban scale) should consider a wide range of users. Another goal of this article is to stimulate discussion and debate about universal design education in higher education. This research provides ideas for colleges and universities to organize universal design courses and publish studies in this way. The research method of this article is a descriptive-analytical method based on the content analysis technique, which is studied with a qualitative approach. In the end, we can say: since this field is still in the process of development, students are forced to do automatic learning and automatic search. Also, lifelong learning programs that will be offered by organizations such as professional associations of native architects are necessary to maintain a universal design practice in architecture.